Managing Windows Updates

re: Managing Windows Updates

Mosquat — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:55:35 GMT

Thanks for this info Daniel, I would have continued with the same old manual process had it not been for this post!

re: Managing Windows Updates

Razor — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:41:27 GMT

I can't find the download link at that site. What am I doing wrong?

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Sparky — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:28:34 GMT

You mentioned Windows SP3 in your posting above. Any guidance you can offer on a recommended installation procedure for the ~344mb executable? Should this be applied in MDT via Applications, OS Packages, or elsewhere?

Others feel free to chime in...

re: Managing Windows Updates

Alex — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:09:57 GMT

2 Razor: go to Program Files link at the left

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Andrea — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:51:36 GMT

Until the release I was doing it as an update. Friday I slipstreamed the update into mu volume license media and created the the task sequence with the slipstreamed media. Just don't try to slipstream it on a vista pc- Xp only.

Working fine as far as I can tell. :)

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Thomas — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:38:55 GMT

Is it company policy not to endorse great tools not written in house? ;)

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GreatBarrier86 — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:43:23 GMT

Would you recommend this over WSUS?

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mwest — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:55:56 GMT

Nice find Daniel! It only seems to bring down the EXE files. Is there a way to get the MSU files or somehow I can package the EXE files as MSU files? Would be nice to add them as OS Packages but if need be I can run them as Applications.

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Steve Collins — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:01:36 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to add windows xp updates to the OS packages section in MDT08. I noticed in your post that you have said you need to apply the updates in a .msu for MDT to properly detect them.My question is how do you converter the downloaded updates from microsoft to .msu format ?

Thanks

Steve

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scollins01 — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:57:03 GMT

Hello,

I'm want to add additional windows XP updates to the OS Packages section of MDT but i can't seem to find a tool or a guide to converter the standard downloaded updates to the required format ?

I have tried extracting them and then pointing MDT to the extracted location with no success

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Nathan — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:00:30 GMT

Given that MDT requires files in MSU format for OS packages, I guess that means it's only useful for vista/2008 no? and that Andrea's method is still probably best for XP/2003

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Daniel Oxley — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:13:02 GMT

@GreatBarrier86

WSUS is a tool for downloading and distributing patches. The tool i refer to in my blog post simply allows you to automate the download of many patches, it will not do the distribution.

HTH,

Daniel

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Daniel Oxley — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:14:12 GMT

@MWEST

Hi,

All the program does is download the file(s) that appear on the KB support page. So, if Microsoft have packaged them in format .exe then that is how they will download. The vast majority will be in either MSI or MSU.

Daniel

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Daniel Oxley — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:22:55 GMT

@Steve Collins, Scollins01 & Nathan

You can't convert MSIs to MSUs, nor vice versa so I am afraid that a convertor does not exist.

You'll need to either break open the MSI to get the internal files (if possible) with the /a option, or install the package(s) via a script using MSIEXEC.EXE /I

Because MDT requires the updates in MSU format, you'll need to either install then using a script or use BDD2007 to install the MSI files.

It is a useful tool for XP as well, it just depends on how you deploy the updates. Although you might not be able to install them via OS Packages, you could still install them with a script.

Finally, don't forget that you can extract the contents of an MSU in order to add the CAB files to BDD using the command: expand -F:* MSU_File.msu c:\ExtractFolder

HTH,

Daniel

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Andrea — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:04:59 GMT

When I was downloading updates from Windows update catalog,(vista) I just pointed to the download folder from the MDT workbench and it brought in the packages and extracted what it needed in the right format in os packages components. It was awhile ago,I'm now working with xp sp3 and there are too many updates I need wo worry about, and I have wsus to handle anything I don't get.

;)

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Mosquat — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:10:21 GMT

Integrating SP3 with XP (for Sparky)

The only issue I have come across is when I have integrated SP3 using my Vista workstation - when it comes to build time I'm prompted for my produt key which is a VLK but this key is not accepted:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;950722

Integrating SP3 on an XP workstation works fine though.

HTH

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scollins01 — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:42:28 GMT

Thanks for the advice Daniel. I will have a look at trying to script this.

Thanks again

Steve

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mikenchi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:59:32 GMT

Hi Dan, your article states that WUD will download all post-SP3 patches. I am still deploying XP SP2 to my corporate machines, and we're not yet ready for SP3. Does an update list exist that will download all post-SP2 patches?

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ropersc — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:49:17 GMT

I put all the exe's in a directory and create a batch file with the following 3 lines

dir *.exe /b >temp.txt

FOR /F 55a IN (temp.txt) DO %%a /norestart /quiet

del temp.txt

I then add an app to MDT runing this batch file. The files will install by order of the kb number.

As far as future updates go.. just add the exe to the app dir on the mdt server and update the deployment point.

Cheers-